In a somewhat bizarre case, a Goldman Sachs programmer has been convicted for the second time of stealing software that he developed for Goldman (see Wired article). The first conviction was overturned and the second may be nullified by the judge. Sergey Aleynikov was convicted in 2011 on espionage and theft of trade secret charges. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Below is an interesting ad from the J.P. Morgan Chase home page: They go on to say that you could be responsible for any losses if you do. They say don’t share your login password for Chase.com with third party sites that offer budgeting, managing and other services. In fact, the user agreement says this: […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft just patched a bug this month (see article) that potentially allows a hacker to take over your computer and for sure allows a hacker to crash it – repeatedly – all because they forgot to check for a carry overflow in an addition operation. It potentially affects 70 million web sites and is being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported today that the age of drone vandalism has come. Early Wednesday morning, the graffiti artist/vandal known as KATSU used a hacked Phantom drone to deface a 6 story tall Calvin Klein billboard on Houston Street in New York City and posted the tagging of the billboard on You Tube. Given what he did […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T rolled out its Google Fiber competitor (see article) in the Kansas City, Mo. area (Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, and Overland Park, Kan. ) for the same price that Google charges – $70 a month. However, if you would prefer that AT&T not track the web pages you visit, the time you spend at each, the links […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In January Morgan Stanley caught one of it’s financial advisors, Galen Marsh, after he stole data on 350,000 clients and someone posted part of it on the Internet. This month a JPMorgan employee, Peter Persaud, was arrested for selling customer data to an undercover FBI snitch. While both of these people were in the financial […]
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